Abstract [en]

A survey conducted by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development) shows that school results among Swedish 15 year olds are rapidly declining, and that non of the other partaking countries show a drop of this scale, for the same period of time. This text is a study that focuses around how understanding of the subject construction, within the subject of Swedish differs between teachers and their students. A selection has been made, and it consists of three classes of second year students in three different Swedish high schools, all from the same medium sized municipality. The students also have in common that they are striving for future higher studies, based on their choice of specialisation. This essay serves to prove how joint understanding of what the subject consists of, affects the possibility of fair and equal grading.The result of this survey shows that teachers and students do not necesarilly share a common understanding of what the subject is. Of tradition, teachers tend to look upon the subject as a literary subject, from a historical perspective. In contrast to this, it is evident through this study that students generally percieve it as a subject focused upon proficiency, because they want future practical use of that which is studied.